Childcare

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Lifestyle
First Person

How I avoid burnout while teaching, running a nursery, and parenting two children

How I Find the Time: For Sinéad Leonard, 35, the most stressful part of her career is balancing a busy family life on the side

News

Free childcare will become postcode lottery as providers are forced to shut, councils warn

Lifestyle
First Person

I resent looking after my grandchildren and being treated like free childcare

Article thumbnail: Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride announced that there will be no changes to the existing timetable but that there will be another review in about three years’ time (Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)
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‘Parents are struggling to afford fees’: How I manage a nursery during a cost of living crisis

Money
Analysis

Working from home is saving some people £7,000 a year – but mainly the middle class

Article thumbnail: File photo dated 24/01/16 of a preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks, as the Government's reforms to the childcare system "risk worsening outcomes" for disadvantaged children, charities have warned. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 25, 2023. Plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England do not support poorer children or improve childcare quality, according to a report by Coram Family and Childcare and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. See PA story EDUCATION Childcare. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 24/01/16 of a preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks, as the Government's reforms to the childcare system "risk worsening outcomes" for disadvantaged children, charities have warned. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 25, 2023. Plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England do not support poorer children or improve childcare quality, according to a report by Coram Family and Childcare and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. See PA story EDUCATION Childcare. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Nicola Sturgeon visiting a primary school in Glasgow while she was still First Minister (Photo: Getty)
Article thumbnail: Nicola Sturgeon visiting a primary school in Glasgow while she was still First Minister (Photo: Getty)
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 24/01/16 of a preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks, as the Government's reforms to the childcare system "risk worsening outcomes" for disadvantaged children, charities have warned. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 25, 2023. Plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England do not support poorer children or improve childcare quality, according to a report by Coram Family and Childcare and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. See PA story EDUCATION Childcare. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 24/01/16 of a preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks, as the Government's reforms to the childcare system "risk worsening outcomes" for disadvantaged children, charities have warned. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 25, 2023. Plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England do not support poorer children or improve childcare quality, according to a report by Coram Family and Childcare and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. See PA story EDUCATION Childcare. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: RADSTOCK, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 06: A young boy plays with toys at a playgroup for pre-school aged children in Chilcompton near Radstock on January 6, 2015 in Somerset, England. Along with the health and the economy, education and childcare are to be key issues in the forthcoming election. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: RADSTOCK, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 06: A young boy plays with toys at a playgroup for pre-school aged children in Chilcompton near Radstock on January 6, 2015 in Somerset, England. Along with the health and the economy, education and childcare are to be key issues in the forthcoming election. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)